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@ds8
"why is farcaster's user growth slowing down, even reversing?" many people that $DEGEN and derivatives brought to the platform weren't users, they were locusts. they came, extracted what they wanted and left. some stayed and became valuable members, some were harmful. resources that could've been spent on improving the platform were redirected into battling all the negative side-effects. farcaster didn't thrive. it survived. don't get me wrong, i love these experiments — degen mindset is builder mindset — but if you're doubting farcaster based on naive data points, you're gonna have a bad time. maybe this is not the right place for you at this moment. and that's ok. however, if you accept we're in the early phases and there are still many roadblocks to overcome, so much left to build (and sunset too), and that it's you who can shape its future, you will be much happier. farcaster is what we make it to be.
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@rjs
Good ghast gentle man gib Degen pls thanks hehe those were the good old days 💜
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@ds8
fun days, fun days... i actually remember the network felt more alive, at the same time there was way less interesting content.
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@rjs
It did feel more alive, I was reminded constantly by random people how they were going unalive me because I put them in the Degen van 🚐 (Narrator: now, by some quirk, "ban" came to be mistranslated as "van" for a significant fraction of Degen farmers...)
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@ds8
🤣 luckily i never experienced this. though i witnessed a guy threatening to kill himself if he didn't get a reward for some dune query that he botched. (well, it was ~10k degen, which is a lot now and even more back then). dignity is hard to come by, easy to leave.
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@rjs
Ouch yeah a lot of desperate people lost it here. I had some lady go full on attack mode in my DMs, it sounds like she had paid somebody to sign up to here and owed them money she had to mine back as Degen Tips... Bizarre story
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